NOT GUILTY?

Escape

The female guards rushed with the patient to the hospital while she held her head. She didn't want to lose her not when she needed her the most.

'Please hurry,' she said to the driver from the back.

The warden had asked the guards to go with her. Tears streaming down on her cheeks, she just prayed that she was going to be alright.

Doctor Miguel was already standing at the entrance waiting for the ambulance to arrive. He had already been told by the warden.

When they finally arrived, he instructed the nurses to bring the stretcher bed. The patient was placed on the bed. She didn't want to let go of her hand.

'Is she going to be alright?' she asked worriedly.

She had started bleeding and her breathing was slow. Doctor Miguel looked at the patient and back to her.

'I will try to save her.'

That's all she needed to hear.

She sat on the bench patiently waiting for Doctor Miguel to come out with good news. Seconds turned into minutes and minutes into hours. She began pacing up and down while the guard sat on the bench.

'Can't you sit down?' she asked irritated. 'you making me feel dizzy with your ups and downs.'

'Why are they taking long? He should have been out by now.'

'Just let them do their job. Look I know you worried about her but she is going to be alright.'

The guard had to tell her some stories just to keep her mind of things. She laughed a little but couldn't stop thinking about her.

Miguel finally came out of the operation room and pronounced her dead. Her legs became weak and she almost fell when he quickly held her hand. Her only best friend had died. It was supposed to be her.

Doctor Miguel tried so hard to make her feel better but she was too much shocked. The only things left of her were her diary and all the good things that she did in that place. When she went back to the prison, the place just felt different. She went to sit in her cell remembering all that she had said to her.

'If anything ever happen to me and you manage to get out of this place. Tell my girls that mummy didn't do it. My husband he should know that I was framed. When I tried to fight for my innocence, they threatened to hurt my family.'

That was 3 days ago.

'Why are you thinking of dying? You are a soldier and my protector, Godmother to my children'

She cried so hard remembering her words and the paper she had left for her. A paper with a list of names that she had chosen for her child. The pain was just too hard on her and too much for her to bear. She wasn't even going to attend her funeral.

'Kate.'

She slowly lifted her head up high and saw the warden handing her the handkerchief.

'What are you doing here?' she asked taking it from her.

'It was a dangerous poison that killed Letwin.'

'What?'

Warden sat down on the bed in her cell.

'The person who did this wanted you to die or miscarry. Unfortunately it had an effect on her.'

'That should have been me lying in that mortuary. Today she had actually received some good news. Her case had been withdrawn. They found the people who framed her. She was going to get out of this place. She was so worried about me that she told her lawyer to wait for a week before collecting her release papers. She was a great person and didn't deserve to die.'

The pain Kate felt inside was unexplainable. She somehow blamed herself for giving her the plate.

'You don't have to blame herself for her death. We need to find out who did this. I am suspecting that there is a prisoner who is working with Rita. I think she found out that you are pregnant and wants you dead. I promise to take good care of you and monitor what you eat.'

'This place will never be the same without Letwin.'

Warden hugged her , she wanted to tell her the truth but could risk losing her.

When she left her cell, she quickly walked back to her office and grabbed her car keys. She walked out to the parking lot and got into her car. She drove off to her son's house making sure that she wasn't followed. Who knows maybe Rita had some people following her. After all she was the warden, getting rid of her will be easy and replacing her with someone who was corrupt.

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Parking her car at her son's house, she quickly got out and locked it before walking to the door. It was around 10 pm and they had pronounced Letwin dead in the afternoon. Her son didn't take long to open it.

'Mum!' he exclaimed taking her into an embrace, 'what took you so long to come?'

'I am sorry son. I was having a talk with Kate. She isn't taking the whole thing well. I almost told her the truth,' she said as her son locked the door.

'Don't do that mother. I know how much you love that girl but at least keep this to yourself for now. I had to lie to her also and I kind of feel guilty.'

'How did you come up with the lie?'

Miguel remembered when Letwin woke up after just taking little of the poison. She thought the food tasted different and didn't eat it all. While she was thinking all about the food, she felt a sudden pain in her stomach and that's when she passed out. Miguel was glad to identify the poison and gave her an antidote. From what he had discovered, it was a poison used to abort. That meant the person wanted Kate to miscarry. It was Letwin who told Miguel to tell Kate that she didn't make it.

'That's a lot to take,' said his mother when he had finished narrating, 'can I see her?'

'She is in the guest room.'

Miguel had come with Letwin at his house because she had something to discuss with him and his mother.

The two walked to the guest room and found the door widely opened. Letwin was busy exercising.

She noticed them standing at the door and stopped what she was doing.

'You can get in,' she said grabbing the towel she had placed on the bed

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'For someone who almost died in the afternoon, I must say that you are a very strong woman.'

Letwin smiled. She could have died if he didn't save her quickly.

'I owe my life to your son. He is a good doctor,' she said sitting on the chair legs apart.

She cleared her throat and began,

'We are here to talk about Kate. I have grown to love that girl since she came in that place and I hate to say I regret leaving her there alone.

Nobody touched her when I was in there. I don't know what they will do to her now. But I have got some good news. After they find out that I was innocent, they are making me the General.'

'Congrats,' said Miguel.

'I am a good soldier,' and she was one, 'I was thinking to bring one of the detective I know to replace me. We need to know what happened. I found myself in that place even though I was not guilty. We need to put the right people in that place.'

'What do you suggest we do?' asked the warden.

Letwin explained to them what they were supposed to do. She wasn't going to give up on Kate.

Tomorrow morning she was supposed to go back to her family and asked to be excused not before she called out the warden.

'How is she doing?'

'She loved you.'

'I know she did and tomorrow I will go and find her little sister, Karen. I know she been finding some evidence to prove to the court that she didn't do it.'

The ladies finally said their good nights.

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RITA

She felt like she was going to explode.

The 'damn' guard had failed to do her job right. A wrong person had died, she felt angry and all mixed emotion.

She didn't know what to do anymore but had to do something. She didn't want her to live, she didn't want her to have the baby. She had to make another plan very soon.

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